To Bring Tobacco Harm Reduction to Prisons, We Need Outside Allies

To Bring Tobacco Harm Reduction to Prisons, We Need Outside Allies

Harm reduction efforts outside prison often involve lawyers and other experts identifying policy that is weak from more than one angle—policies which, if attacked properly, can yield wins for harm reduction. The same could be true here. I don’t have access to tobacco harm reduction (THR) strategy meetings. If I did, I would be urging the targeting of prison policies that are vulnerable because they cost money, as well as lives. Washington State …